首先，我们需要创建主要的D3D对象，然后检查默认的显示模式（这个例子可以在16、24和32位色下正常地工作，但不支持8位的调色板模式）。利用默认的显示模式，Init函数将通过主窗口的句柄来创建一个设备（译注：即LPDIRECT3DDEVICE8）。接下来，我们设置一些属性，用来告诉渲染设备如何工作，这些属性在DX8的SDK中可查询到更加完整的文档说明，以及其他的一些使用指南。

First, the main D3D object is created, and then the default display mode is examined (this sample works well in 16, 24, and 32-bit color, but not in 8-bit palletized mode). Using the default display mode, the Init function will create a device that utilizes the HWND of the main window. Next, the code sets a series of flags that tell how to render. These flags are well documented in the DX8 SDK, and other flipcode tutorials.

可以选择是否打开Z Buffer（译注：即深度）属性，这样在绘制如tile这样（译注：如游戏地图与精灵的关系）场景的时候，通过z值，可以很清楚地表现出位图之间的层次关系（译注：如树应该挡住人，而人应该挡住草地……），当然这会有一定开销。或者你更喜欢自己通过一个list来实现这种效果，这完全视个人的喜好。

Notice that the Z buffer is enabled for this sample. It might seem to make more sense to disable the Z-buffer, however, when tiling bitmaps inside a program (for dialog boxes, target reticules, etc.) it is a great comfort to be able to set a z value, rather than resort the render list. This is, of course, purely a matter of personal preference.

因为在3D世界里，所有的渲染都是针对多边形的，接下来我们需要设置多边形的诸个顶点的值和颜色，这里不需要对它们进行映射或culling（所有的对象将直接对应整个屏幕）。我们会在texture上绘制我们想要的颜色，它不需要光照（虽然它是一个很酷的效果，如果运用得当的话）。打开AlphaBlending，接着设置texture的Alpha Blending相关属性，同样，也需要设置使用标记顶点的渐变属性。

Since this program will provide the vertex coordinates and colors on its own, there is no need for projection or culling (all objects will be facing the screen). Since the texture will be providing its own color data, there is no need for lighting (although this could be a cool special effect if applied properly). Alpha blending is enabled, and the texture is set to provide the alpha blending parameters. Also, vertex shader is set to recognize the vertex type that is used.

{

      m_pd3dDevice->Clear( 0, NULL, D3DCLEAR_TARGET|D3DCLEAR_ZBUFFER,

                            D3DCOLOR_XRGB(0,0,255), 1.0f, 0L );

      m_pd3dDevice->BeginScene();

      // Rendering of scene objects happens here.

      m_pd3dDevice->SetTexture( 0, MyRect.m_Texture.pTexture );

    m_pd3dDevice->SetStreamSource( 0, MyRect.m_VertexBuffer, sizeof(CUSTOMVERTEX) );

      m_pd3dDevice->DrawPrimitive( D3DPT_TRIANGLESTRIP , 0, 2 );

      // End the scene.

      m_pd3dDevice->EndScene();

        m_pd3dDevice->Present( NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL );

        return 0;

从Render函数开始，我们才真正开始实际的工作：渲染整个场景。它对于一个2D的程序员而言，等同于我们原先所熟悉的DirectDraw中的Flip函数。

This is the only other function in the D3Dobj definition. This is the function that actually does all the work; for a 2D programmer, this is the equivalent to the DirectDraw Flip function.

首先，清空所有的缓冲（注：虽然这只是个2D的程序，不过Z Buffer的效果依然存在），接着，我们将背景用纯蓝色填充，当前的texture和顶点缓冲指向一个MyRect对象（下面很快会讲到这个）。在做完所有的设置工作后，调用DrawPrimitive函数来绘制这个矩形，我们通过设置4个顶点来表示2个三角形（译注：3D环境下的渲染单位为三角形），用它们来表示出我们所想要的矩形。先用3个顶点定义出第1个三角形Triangle0，再用第4个顶点来定义出第2个三角形Triangle1，它与Triangle0有两个相同的顶点（如图）。

First, all buffers are cleared (note, even though this is a 2D program, the Z buffer is still cleared) and the screen is filled with blue. Then the current texture and vertex buffer are pointed at the MyRect object (we will get to that soon.). Once everything is set, DrawPrimitive is called to draw the rectangle. We draw a rectangle by drawing two triangles defined by four points. The first three points define Triangle0, the next point defines a triangle based on itself and the previous two points. (see graph).

在调用DrawPrimitive函数后，渲染工作还尚未开始，而接下来的EndScene和Present才是真正的完成了渲染工作。EndScene用来告诉Direct3D在区域中有多少个多边形需要渲染，而Present相当于DirectDraw中的Flip操作。它将绘制出指定的位图（定义在MyRect中）。在实际的程序中，通常我们会在一个循环中渲染出所有的多边形，方法是读取一个多边形的列表（我使用vector）。

After the primitive is cached (not really rendered yet), EndScene and Present are called, to really finish the frame rendering. EndScene tells Direct3D that there aren抰 any more polygons to render, and Present is the 3D equivalent of DirectDraw抯 Flip. It should be noted that this will only draw one bitmap (the one defined by MyRect). In any real application, this would be a loop, which read from a list (I use a vector) of polygons, setting the texture, setting the vertex buffer, and rendering the primitive for each of the polygons in the list.

多边形

在这个Poly类中，我们封装了1个顶点缓冲和1个指向texture的指针。在Poly类的构造函数中，初始化顶点缓冲（设置为全屏）。

The Poly object encapsulates a vertex buffer and a texture pointer. The Poly object initializes the vertex buffer, and sets it to arbitrary (full-screen) coordinates.

class Poly

{

public:

        Poly() : m_VertexBuffer(NULL) { Init(); }

        ~Poly() { Clear(); }

        void Clear();

        void Init();

        void SetVertRect(int x, int y, int w, int h, float d); // Sets the

rectangle used by the Verticies.

        LPDIRECT3DVERTEXBUFFER8        m_VertexBuffer;

        Texture                               m_Texture;

}

void Poly::Clear()

{

        SAFE_RELEASE(m_VertexBuffer);

Clear函数用来清除顶点缓冲，然后设置为NULL。

The Clear function just wipes the vertex buffer, and sets it to NULL.

void Poly::Init ()

{

        // Create a 4-point vertex buffer

        if( FAILED( MyD3D.m_pd3dDevice->CreateVertexBuffer(

            4*sizeof(CUSTOMVERTEX), 0, D3DFVF_CUSTOMVERTEX, D3DPOOL_DEFAULT,

            &m_VertexBuffer) ) )

               return ;

        CUSTOMVERTEX* pVertices;

        if( FAILED( m_VertexBuffer->Lock( 0, 4*sizeof(CUSTOMVERTEX),

          (BYTE**)&pVertices, 0 ) ) )

               return ;

        pVertices[0].position=D3DXVECTOR3( -1.0f,  1.0f, 0.5f );

        pVertices[0].color=0xffffffff;

        pVertices[0].tu=0.0;

        pVertices[0].tv=0.0;

        pVertices[1].position=D3DXVECTOR3( 1.0f,  1.0f, 0.5f );

        pVertices[1].color=0xffffffff;

        pVertices[1].tu=1.0;

        pVertices[1].tv=0.0;

        pVertices[2].position=D3DXVECTOR3( -1.0f,  -1.0f, 0.5f );

        pVertices[2].color=0xffffffff;

        pVertices[2].tu=0.0;

        pVertices[2].tv=1.0;

        pVertices[3].position=D3DXVECTOR3(  1.0f,  -1.0f, 0.5f );

        pVertices[3].color=0xffffffff;

        pVertices[3].tu=1.0;

        pVertices[3].tv=1.0;

        m_VertexBuffer->Unlock();

首先，Init函数创建一个拥有4个顶点的顶点缓冲，它是那么清晰明了（传入缓冲的大小、顶点的类型、缓冲的地址，最后CreateVertexBuffer函数会填写你的顶点缓冲然后返回它）。

First, the Init function creates a vertex buffer with four points. This is a fairly straightforward function (receives the size of the buffer, the type of vertex, the memory pool to grab it from, and the pointer used to return the buffer).

接下来，我们通过Lock来锁定创建的顶点缓冲，以此得到直接操作的权限。Lock函数返回一个指针，用来让我们往里面填写数据。

Next, the buffer is locked so that we have access to the actual data. The lock function returns the pointer to our data.

然后，正确地填写每一个顶点的值。需要注意的是，所有在屏幕上的坐标，都是基于-1.0和1.0之间的。很明显，第3个值是指的Z Buffer，它基于0.0和1.0之间。

After that, we set each vertex to the correct values. All position values are based on the assumption that the screen goes from -1.0 to 1.0 in both the X and Y direction, with the origin at the center of the screen. The third value is, of course, the Z value, and has valid values of 0.0 to 1.0.
 

Color的默认值设为白色（不透明），理由是：我们将从texture中读取颜色，而不是从多边形的某个角，接着设置不透明的颜色为0xff，但这并不影响texture中本身带有alpha通道。

The color defaults to white (with full opacity) the reason for this is that we will be reading all of our color data from the texture, not from the individual corners of the polygon. Note that although we set the opacity to 0xff, this does not preclude the texture map from using its own alpha mask.

Tu和Tv这2个值用来指定texture的范围，基于0.0和1.0之间。当然，聪明的你是不会漏掉这个的。

The TU and TV values are anchors into the texture map. These values are also valid from 0.0 to 1.0. Usually, you won抰 ever want to mess with these.

现在所有顶点的值都设置好了，然后使用Unlock来释放对这个矩形的锁定，从而得到对应的多边形，为接下来的渲染作准备。

Once all the vertices are set up, you unlock the rectangle to get your polygon ready for rendering.

现在多边形也全部搞定了，如果你要改变这个多边形的顶点缓冲的值（毕竟不是所有的多边形都是全屏的），可以这么做：

Now that the polygon is all set up, suppose you want to alter the vertex locations (after all, not every polygon is going to be full-screen).

void Poly::SetVertRect(int x, int y, int w, int h, float d)

{

        float left, top, right, bottom;

        left    = ((float)x  (float)VIEWPORT_WIDTH) * 2.0f - 1.0f;

        right   = ((float)(x + w)  (float)VIEWPORT_WIDTH) * 2.0f - 1.0f;

        top     = ((float)y  (float)VIEWPORT_HEIGHT) * 2.0f - 1.0f;

        bottom  = ((float)(y + h)  (float)VIEWPORT_HEIGHT) * 2.0f - 1.0f;

        CUSTOMVERTEX* pVertices;

        m_VertexBuffer->Lock( 0, 4*sizeof(CUSTOMVERTEX), (BYTE**)&pVertices, 0);

        pVertices[0].position=D3DXVECTOR3( left,  bottom, d );

        pVertices[1].position=D3DXVECTOR3( right,  bottom, d );

        pVertices[2].position=D3DXVECTOR3( left,  top, d );

        pVertices[3].position=D3DXVECTOR3( right,  top, d );

        m_VertexBuffer->Unlock();

这个函数将根据传入的值（x,y,width,height）来生成新的一系列顶点，以改变这个矩形的范围。最后，它通过Lock住这个缓冲以写入改变的值。假如你想将一个sprite从屏幕的右边移动到左边的话，你可以在每一帧里调用SetVertRect(--x,y,width,height,depth)。这段代码根据传入的虚拟坐标值（基于系统的可视范围），来传换成 -1.0至1.0中的有效值。

This function translates a rectangle (x, y, width, height) into correct vertex locations, and alters the vertex buffer accordingly. If, for instance, you were slowly moving a sprite from the right side of the screen to the left you might call SetVertRect(--x, y, width, height, depth) once per frame. This code takes the assumed locations (based on a Viewport_width, Viewport_height coordinate system), and resizes them to the correct -1.0 to 1.0 value. After that, it locks the buffer and writes out the changes.

纹理

class Texture

{

public:

        Texture() { Clear(); }

        Texture(const char * Filename) { Init(Filename); }

        ~Texture() { Clear(); }

        void Init (const char * Filename);

        void Clear();

        LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE8     pTexture;

        int m_Width;

        int m_Height;

        int m_Pitch;

};

在Texture对象中，包含了图像数据，并用一成员变量LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE保存它。

The Texture Object holds image-specific data, and the buffer to the actual texture.

void Texture::Init (const char * Filename)

{

        TGAFile file;

        file.read(Filename);

        m_Width=file.m_Width;

        m_Height=file.m_Height;

        m_Pitch=file.m_Pitch;

        MyD3D.m_pd3dDevice->CreateTexture( file.m_Width, file.m_Height, 0, 0,

        D3DFMT_A8R8G8B8, D3DPOOL_MANAGED, &pTexture );

        D3DLOCKED_RECT d3dlr;

        pTexture->LockRect( 0, &d3dlr, 0, 0 );

        DWORD * pDst = (DWORD *)d3dlr.pBits;

        int DPitch = d3dlr.Pitch4;

        DWORD * pSrc = (DWORD *)file.m_PixelData;

        int SPitch = file.m_Pitch4;

        for (int i=0; i<file.m_Height; ++i)

               for (int j=0; j<file.m_Width; ++j)

                       pDst[i*DPitch + j] = pSrc[i*SPitch + j];                       

        pTexture->UnlockRect (0);

}

上面的例子通过读取一个TGA图像文件的数据来填充texture。呵呵，读取TGA文件在任何时候都不是一件有趣的事情，真正有意思的部分是从调用CreateTexture函数开始。它需要传入Texture的宽、高、图像格式，以及一个指向成功调用后所开辟的缓冲指针：LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE8

In this sample, textures are filled with TGA file data. However, reading TGA files is not the interesting thing about this function. The interesting part starts with the CreateTexture function. This function receives as parameters a width, height, image format, and the type of memory used to allocate the texture. It returns a pointer to the newly created texture.

在成功地获得缓冲的指针后，同样通过Lock来锁定texture缓冲，就像在大多数DirectX 程序那样：锁定某个资源后，通过返回的指针填写数据，最后在所有的工作完成后Unlock资源。

Once the pointer is received, we can lock the rectangle that holds that texture. Again, we follow the standard DirectX pattern of locking a resource, filling the data it points us to, and unlocking the resource.

请注意下面这一段代码：

Consider this section:

        for (int i=0; i<file.m_Height; ++i)

               for (int j=0; j<file.m_Width; ++j)

                       pDst[i*DPitch + j] = pSrc[i*SPitch + j]; 

这里是整个程序的关键之所在。当你操作texture的指针时，可以像过去我们所熟悉的，就像是在操作DirectDraw Surface指针。这个时候，你可以做任何你想做的事情，比方说：绘制 Bresenham直线、画圆或者绘制一个位图（就像这个例子所展示的这样）。在上面的代码中，我们从一个源位图中读取数据，并拷贝到目标位图中去。同样，我们可以指定某种颜色，用来填充目标位图，就像这样：

This is the key to the whole program. While you have access to the texture pointer, you can treat the texture just like a DirectDraw Surface Pointer. You can use this pointer to draw Bresenham lines, circles, or bitmaps (as in this sample case). In this section of code, we copy from a source bitmap to a destination bitmap. However, we could just as easily fill with a specific color:

pDst[y*Dpitch + x] = ( alpha << 24 | red << 16 | green<< 8 | blue )

  另外有一点需要注意的是，上面这些函数中，我在使用其中的一些函数时，对于某些参数的具体意义没有去详细地解释它的意义，不过你可以通过查询DX8的SDK中的帮助文件，从而得到更多的信息。例如：在Lock和Unlock函数中，第1个参数是0， 这是因为每个texture（译注：在Mip-mapping的情况下纹理可能包含多个表面，所谓Mip-mapping是指为远处的物体存一个更小的版本的位图Mip-Mapping。在3D中，当物体很远，不需要细节的时候使用最小尺寸的位图。在2D中我们并不关心这个（Mip-Mapping），因此我们将是使用的纹理为单顶层表面，调用0层）都有8个"面"，它意味着Lock的是第0个"面"，而在2D渲染中，我们只需要使用第0个就可以了。而直到这之前，我都没有像刚才那样把每一件事都说明得很清楚，因为这已经不属于本文的范围，你应该去花时间来熟悉这些函数的使用方法。

One other point, I have glossed over several of the parameters in some of these functions, and it would be well worth the trouble to look them up in the DX8 SDK. For instance, in the Lock and Unlock functions, the first parameter is a 0, which indicates that you are locking the 0th stage identifier. Every surface has up to 8 surfaces, but for 2D rendering we only use the 0th. Since it was not needed for 2D rendering, I didn抰 mention this, however, you may still want to read up on these functions when you are implementing them.

结束语

在这个例子中，我们见到了如何在Direct3D环境下构造我们高性能的2D程序。同样，我们也知道了在不放弃过去所掌握的2D知识的情况下，如何获得DirectX8所带来的好处：更快的Blit、Alpha blending、缩放、还有很多……

In this sample we have seen how to implement Direct3D to perform fast 2D functions. Also, we have seen how we can easily gain important 2D functions (stretching, alpha blending, etc.) without sacrificing our 2D coding knowledge.

下面我给出本文所介绍的程序源码，相比文中所介绍的，它做了很少的一些改动。为了你能更清楚地理解这段程序，我去掉了读取TGA图像文件的部分。你可以从这里下载源代码：dx8adv2d.zip(43K)

There have been some slight changes in the source that is bundled with this text, but the changes are largely cosmetic. I took out the TGA reader to make the code more readable. Download the source code here: dx8adv2d.zip (43k)

Brand Gamblin在过去的5年中一直在Microprose Hunt Valley Studio和Kinesoft Austin担任游戏程序员。不过他现在正在找工作（译注：呵呵，跟我一样^^），他还维护着他的个人主页，你可以在这里访问：http://www.niftycode.com。（有空的话，也请访问我的主页^^：http://tlovexyj.yeah.net）

Brand Gamblin has worked as a game programmer for the last five years at Microprose Hunt Valley Studio and Kinesoft Austin. He's now looking for work, and maintaining his own website athttp://www.niftycode.com